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01. Scrambled Eggs - Russian Roulette
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02. Malikah (feat. Zoog) - Intikhabeit 2009
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03. Mashrou' Leila - Raksit Layla
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04. Shift Z (feat. Hiba El Mansouri) - Ahwak
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05. Katibe 5 - Morr
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06. The New Government - The New Government
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07. Lumi - Don't Fuck With My Cat
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08. Soap Kills - Herzan
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09. Praed - Rocket (Sarookh)
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10. Rayess Bek - Keskonatten
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11. Ziyad Sahhab - Rawak
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12. The Incompetents - Disposable Valentine
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ARTIST
VA
TITLE
Golden Beirut: New Sounds From Lebanon
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
OUT HERE RECORDS
CATALOG #
OH 020CD
OH 020CD
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
9/27/2011
The 12 songs on this compilation look at the Arab world through a new pair of glasses: Beirut's underground. The CD focuses on a young generation that is tired of war, fed up with politics, sick of religious madness and angry about Euro-American exoticism. It is keeping itself alive with electro beats, raw aggressive hip-hop or in-your-face indie rock. Together these musicians show a new picture of this war-shaken city and region and show a different Beirut. "The Israelis just bombed our city," one musician joked in 2006, "because Beirut was suddenly cooler and hipper than Tel Aviv." With lots of irony and black humor, Beirut's alternative music scene often tries to neglect the fact that the city and the region is still full of problems, conflicts and contradictions. The scene does not get the same media attention the commercial pan-Arabic satellite-TV pop industry does, but is closely linked to the civil society networks that are of great importance in the ongoing revolutions in the Arab world in 2011. These artists show a new, open-minded city reminiscent in a way of the Golden Beirut of the '60s and '70s -- only updated. In those "golden" years before the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990), Beirut used to be the hub towards the Western world. Lebanese psychedelic rock bands entertained an international crowd in hip Beiruti clubs. In only a few years, the city's liberal reputation was shot to pieces during the civil war.
Golden Beirut
brings together some of the most important voices in the alternative music scenes of Beirut whose music has nothing to do with propaganda, traditionalism and commercialism:
Zeid Hamdan
and his projects
Shift Z
and
Soap Kills
mix minimalist electronic sounds with soft Arab singing. The indie-rock, post-punk and electro-pop bands
Scrambled Eggs
,
The New Government
and
Lumi
still know how to sweat on stage and create catchy songs. Hip-hop MC
Lix
aka
Malikah
, one of the best Lebanese female MCs, attacks stereotypes with full force.
Katibe 5
rap about the Palestinian refugee camp they grew up in, and rapper
Rayess Bek
discusses life between Lebanon and France. Oud player und charismatic singer
Ziad Sahhab
opposes the strong connections between musicians, music and politics in Lebanon, while
Praed
and
The Incompetents
experiment with wedding music and lullabies. Last but not least, this CD features the upcoming satirical folk rock band
Mashrou' Leila
. They are the first to slowly rise from underground hype to reaching wider audiences.
Golden Beirut
was compiled by ethnomusicologist and journalist
Thomas Burkhalter
, founder of the music network www.norient.com. The photos in the booklet were shot by
Tanya Traboulsi
, an Austrian-Lebanese photographer living in Beirut.
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